Effective Group Skills

EFFECTIVE GROUP WORK SKILLS

Active listening:

• Listening to others without interrupting
• Being able to summarize others' ideas
• Incorporating others' ideas into the ongoing discussion

Sharing

• Sharing materials
• Taking turns

Giving support

• Accepting differences
• Being friendly
• Encouraging others

Explaining skills

• Conveying understanding and meaning in academic tasks
• Describing a problem, assignment or goal
• Identifying steps to be accomplished and reasons for the steps
• Summarize the work they have done or plan to do
• Give answers and explain how they got them.

Seeking explanation from others

• Explaining what they do not understand
• Asking for help

Leadership skills

• Planning
• Demonstrating initiative and enthusiasm

Additional skills